-JUSTICE FOR NATALEE ANN - BOYCOTT ARUBA------------------"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." Thomas Jefferson "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."Thomas Jeff

Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the loss of your beautiful daughter/sister. I am so sorry to see the pain you and yours are going through:

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;Enjoying one moment at a time;Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;Taking, as He did, this sinful worldas it is, not as I would have it;Trusting that He will make all things rightif I surrender to His Will;That I may be reasonably happy in this lifeand supremely happy with HimForever in the next.Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

Rest in peace dear Stephany.

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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it’s much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.<br />Quote: Amory Lovins

I hope that Stephany's family takes a bit of comfort in all the love shown here for them. Bless their hearts!

A friend sent this to me when my Dad died last year. It made me feel a bit better.

The Dragonfly

Once, in a littlepond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions.

Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their friend was dead, gone forever.

Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top.

When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying.

So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never known existed.

Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended.

But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew. So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!

~Author Unknown~

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"but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -Atticus Finch

My condolences to you and your family in your grief at the loss of your beautiful Stephany. My thoughts are with you now, and in the days to come. May you find comfort in knowing, across the Globe ... we stand by you in the quest for justice.

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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware/Of giving your heart to a dog to tear -- Rudyard Kipling

One who doesn't trust is never deceived...

'I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind' -Edgar Allen Poe

Words have been so hard to find. When I heard the news, I gasped... Even though I've known in my heart that another family would suffer, it was still shocking almost beyond belief to see it come to pass. Five years to the day of the loss of Natalee was more shocking still.

I will watch and pray for Justice for Natalee and Stephany.

I'm so sorry for the pain you are going through. Stephany will always be with you in your hearts. I will never forget her, or the grace your family has shown in your time of grief. You are in my prayers daily.

"I can look back over the past 10 years and there were no steps wasted, and there are no regrets,'' she said. "I did all I knew to do and I think that gives me greater peace now." "I've lived every parent's worst nightmare and I'm the parent that nobody wants to be," she said.